Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	body_n	foot_n	right_a	5,704	5	7.0289	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38771	The universall medicine, or, The virtues of the magneticall, or antimoniall cup confirmed to be a health-procuring, health-preserving, and health-restoring effectuall medicine by extant monuments of antiquity, by testimonies of Honourable personages, by 100 admirable and rare experiments, by 200 persons of quality that have experienced the same / collected by John Evans ...	Evans, John, Minister and preacher of God's word.	1651 (1651)	Wing E3452; ESTC R7392	45,036	66

five tents put therein continually and one of the holes quite through which Fistulated sore foot could not be cured by the best skill Salves and Powders of the common Chyrurgeons was within one moneth perfectly cured with the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup 11. The same right worshipfull Gentlewoman cured a young maiden of two Fistulaes one in either of her elbows which had continued four or five yeers before which had much weakned and wasted her arms she was perfectly and speedily cured by using the alone infusion of this Cup having used all means before and could get no help 12. In the same Town a poor man came to this Gentlewoman with a sore hand mightily swelled and infinitely painfull to him so that he could doe no manner of labor His hand being bathed with the infusion of this Cup the next morning it broke and run abundantly and within one fortnight by the use of this infusion alone his hand was perfectly cured 13. A certain poor woman was brought to the right honoured Ladie the Ladie Jackson so drawn up and her sinews contracted with Convulsions that she had not the use either of Legs Arms Feet or Hands notwithstanding she was by the said Lady perfectly cured and restored to strength health and able use of her former benummed limbs by the alone infusion of this Cup 14. Another poor woman being struck with a Cows horn as she was in milking and her cheek sore wounded was by only washing the sores with the Liquor of the Cup perfectly and speedily cured These eight last recited experiments are certified to be approved truth by the right worshipfull M. John Grymsdych of Knottingley Esquire 15. A certain man about 30 years of age troubled for 9 years before with the Disease called the Kings evill and much consumed and weakned therewith was perfectly cured of that Disease by the use of the infusion of this Cup M. Humfrey Guntur Esquire living neer Newberry performed this with many other very rare cures 16. In Wallingford Mr. Smiths Daughter of the George was perfectly cured of the Kings-Evill with the infusion thereof although it was broken out into very many dangerous and Ulcerous sores about her neck and face Mr. William Mollins Esq who lent them his Cup wherewith they cured this patient of that sore disease testifieth this 17. In Mortelake neer Richmond a Gentleman of good worth and reputation now liveth spent very far with a long continued languishing Consumption and at length left remedilesse and forsaken by many Doctors and Physitians was afterwards perfectly recovered to good health appetite digestion and healthfull constitution of body by drinking the infusion of this Cup three times being prepared in Ale witnesse hereunto M. Humfrey Benet Esquire 18. In Barnet ten miles from London a certain poor man distracted with extream Frensie and Madness to whom Mrs. Baker dwelling in the Town administred in good and sufficient quantity of the Liquor of this Cup a pinte of Ale at a time for three times It caused him to vomit and to purge plentifully and fell a bleeding at the nostrills and bled well stayed of it self the patient slept and perfectly recovered and remaineth well praise to God 19. In the same Town upon a Market day a poor Country man was strucken very deep into the leg by a raging Boar and withdrawing his crooked tushes rented tore and bruised the flesh very sore neverthelesse being dressed with the infusion of this Cup was perfectly and speedily healed up without any other help 20. Also in the same Town a certain young maiden being all over the body full of loathsome Biles Botches and scabbed Blains from the Crown to the foot by taking the infusion of this Cup she was speedily cured and her body perfectly purged and cleansed and she avoided at her mouth divers worms whereof one was of an increedible bignesse proportion and form and now she is in good health and fair of complexion 21. Another Gentlewoman in the same Town having many swelling or rising kernels of sanguine blew and other variable colours as big as Nutmegs arising upon her cheek and neck With the application and drinking of this infusion they speedily consumed and vanished away and the Gentlewoman remaineth perfectly cured 22. Another woman living not far from the same Town being lame of her hands knees and feet and not able to stand or goe and brought into Mrs. Kings house in a chair by the strength of men using the infusion of this Cup within four dayes she was perfectly recovered so that she was able to goe home to her own house on foot being two or three miles distant off These five last experiments were don with many more by Mrs. King alias Barker living in Barnet 23. A Merchants Daughter in London very much troubled with a Disease called the Scurvy whereby some of her teeth were fallen out her legs and body exceedingly swelled and she in great extremity of pain and finding no amendment by all the former means they had used by taking the infusion of this Cup three times she was perfectly cured 24. An ancient Gentlewoman living neer Fetter-lane having for many yeers complained of an intollerable pain of the head fell suddainly dangerous sick and deaf and all her face and nose mightily swelled By externall bathing the temples and other parts of her head and face grieved an Impostume broke in her head and purged through her nostrils in such great abundance that it was much to be admired that so much corrupt yellow thick matter could be contained in such a continent her body also throughly purged by the externall bathing and she is now perfectly recoverd and liveth in good health able to justifie this to be true 25. At Wildertop in the County of Salop in the house of Mr. Francis Smalman Esquire a young Gentlewoman being much troubled with oppilations and obstructions and suffocations of the Matrix whereby she fell into many dangerous desperate swounding fits and at length grew to that weaknesse that she had many signes of apparent and imminent death upon whom the infusion of this Cup was inforced in small quantity which wrought well and gave some hopes and after administred twice more recovered the said Gentlewoman to such perfect health that within eight dayes she travelled safely to London 26. An ancient Gentlewoman that for many years was extreamly handled with such intollerable painfullnesse of the Gout in the joynts of the Back-bone in the Huckle-bone and in the Knees and Feet that she could neither stand nor stir her self any way nor scarcely suffer to be removed from her Bed to her Chair By externall bathing the grieved parts with and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup she was perfectly cured and able within fourteen dayes to go up down the stairs and the house and to doe any necessary businesse with as much agility and nimblenesse as any in the same Town of her years and hath so continued perfectly well for

deep into a languishing Consumption and having followed for divers years the prescription of the Physitians without any help or hope Was perfectly and speedily restored to health by drinking the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup 78. In Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford a certain Gentleman was most extreamly taken and troubled with the dead Palsie which had taken away the strength and motion of the one side of his body wholy and also of both the hands and feet so that he was not able to stir out of his bed or being there to move or stir either hand or foot was speedily restored to perfect health strength and abilitie of body to walk and write by drinking the alone prepared Liquor of this Magneticall Cup and bathing therewith 79. In the same Town of Wolverhampton a certain Gentleman having been for a long time much troubled with the Fever Hectick and much stopped and stuffed with tough flegme his Stomack to meat and digestion quite lost and having taken much Physick without any benefit or help and forsaken and left curelesse By drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was speedily restored to perfect health 80. Another man living in the same Town of Wolverhampton that had been above twenty years very much troubled with a deadly quartan Fever and could never get any prevalent help to free him from the violence thereof By drinking three times the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was perfectly cured This was eight years past and he remaineth ever since in perfect health 81. A poor Mayden living in the same Town the Daughter of a poor Widow having lost the benefit of her sight occasioned by over-much coldnesse of the brain and much buffeting and beating about the head but principally caused by long retention of the Menstruous howsoever caused she was esteemed to be sightless remedilesse Neverthelesse by drinking the prepared Liquor of the Cup and droping some into the eyes and bathing the temples her naturall tearms brake down kindly her head and brain received warmnesse and in lesse than fourteen dayes she recovered both her health and perfect sight 82. Another Gentleman that from his Childhood had much complained of dimnesse and weaknesse of his sight especially at any remote distance and hardly able to endure the light of a candle and continually had such a shuting and pricking in his eyes as though sticks had been rowled in them By drinking three or four times the prepared Liquor of this Cup and dropping in his eyes some allayed with fountain water it hath so cleared and strengthned the sight that this Gentleman being fifty two years of age can now read and write by candlelight without any glasses for six or twelve hours together without any trouble or wrong to his sight which he could not doe at any time before 83. In Tressul a Parish in Statfordshire a certain man having throughly heated himself with hay-making and lying down upon the ground caught a most dangerous cold and cough of the lungs which continued upon him even to a deep Astmaticall Consumption so that as well Physitians as others esteemed him to be incureable Neverthelesse by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was speedily and perfectly cured 84. In Walsall in the same County one William Day was so far spent with a languishing Consumption and had taken very much Physick without help or any benefit and esteemed to be utterly incurable By drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was speedily and perfectly cured These eight last recited experiments and as it is affirmed 800. more of severall Diseases were performed by one Benedict Laurence dwelling in Wolverhampton 85. In the same County and neer unto Wolverhampton another Gentleman was in a desperate Consumption and extreamly swelled with hydropicall humors that no apparell could be had big enough for him and his miserable swellings and painfullnesse so great and such that himself and his friends heartily wished his life to be at an end Neverthelesse by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was perfectly and speedily cured 86. Mr. Thomas Godfrey of Seeling in the County of Kent Esq finding his man comming from London in the time of Plague to have faln sick very suddainly suspected that he might be infected with the Pestilence and therefore speedily prepared the Cup and caused his man and himself and every one of his Family with all possible expedition to drink good quantities of the prepared Liquor and it wrought effectually upon every one of them and not any one of his Houshold miscarried His man had a great tumor in his Groin which by bathing was brought to suppuration and broke and was cleansed with the prepared Liquor and thereby was perfectly healed Thus by his carefull and heedfull prevention the said Mr. Godfrey preserved himself and all his Family from the contagious Infections of the Plague This Gentleman hath cured also very many Kentish Agues and above 100. severall persons infirmed with severall infirmities and Diseases with the alone Liquor of the Cup 87. The Lady Middleton of Burshby Hill in Hartfordshire having the same accident as the last recited befaln to her Coachman comming from London in the time of greatest infection with all expedition gave to him to drink the prepared Liquor of the Cup and also to her self and to every particular person of her Family it wrought well upon every one by vomits and otherwise cured the Coachman of the Plague sore and prevented the infection from the rest These I doe publish to excite all to glorifie God for his mercifull goodness and to stir them to the like Christian and Godly care and usefull practice for the better prevention of all such dangerous Diseases 88. A certain Country man being a Warrener having in charge to walk about his ground betwixt one and two in the morning finding himself addicted to sleep having spent the former part of the night in unmeasurable drinking laid himself down upon the ground and slept afterwards rowsing himself up found his limbs mightily stiffned and benummed neverthelesse got home to his house being neer and threw himself on his back in all his clothes upon his Bed where he continued five weeks in that very same posture not being able to suffer himself any way to be holpen for the ease of naturall necessity at which time I was come into the Country and earnestly requested to visit him he was the most miserable spectacle and the most foulsome to come neer unto that ever I saw in all my life Neverthelesse with bathing his benummed arms thighs legs and feet with and by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup recovered his feet and after his perfect health Mr. Thomas Brooks Esquire and Mr. John Dickons with many others doe know this to be a certain truth 89. A certain young woman of a fair and healthfull constitution undertaking the nourishing of two strong children the monethly purgations became stopped and stayed for six moneths and in